With the season at an end the driver rankings articles from different media are already starting to make an appearance. Let’s see how the different publications rate the drivers. First up is this one from The Guardian with some interesting choices:

I’m sorry, but in what world is Max Chilton better than the guy who finished runner up in the Championship this year? Don’t get me wrong, Chilton seems like a nice guy, and even though Alonso hasn’t been fantastic this year, he’s still been far stronger than Chilton…

Same goes for di Resta being better than Button. I just don’t…

I definitely cannot take this list seriously, it’s absolutely ludicrous.

Although I could see possibly see Rosberg higher than Hamilton, I’m not sure I’d have him that high- for me Hamilton was definitely better in the first half of the season, and although Rosberg was better in the second half with a few great performances I think 4th is too much.

EDIT: Also, his justification for being Rosberg being high was terrible, just saying he was ranked high due to being better than Hamilton. And the ‘facts’ he uses to prove that were having more wins and often qualifying ahead- of course one win was inherited and Hamilton out-qualified Rosberg even more often.

Where’s Alonso? A score 8 from LDM is like a 6 in the old figure skating scoring system:-)

If you ask Hamliton himself, he would put himself there but the truth is that McLaren has nearly collapsed after Hamilton’s departure and Mercedes has become a powerhouse. A lot of that must come from Lewis. From an on-track performance, I would put him in P6 but from a team perspective, I think he deserves to be 2nd or 3rd on that list. Other Vettel and maybe Bianchi (did he clinch P10 for Marussia?), no one brought more to their team than Hamilton did this year.

Which he will! What an awful list. Grosjean was fantastic second half of the season but the fact he still finished 50 points off with two more races shows his very poor first half. And then there’s the Chilton position….. oh dear

Like most F1 journalists they suffer from short memory syndrome. “Oh Grosjean has had a good last three races, let’s put him second.” Despite him having a terrible start to the season and almost getting fired in Monaco.